Sentence examples for polio during a from inspiring English sources

In the summer of 1921, Roosevelt was struck by polio during a vacation to Campobello Island, leaving him paralyzed below the waist; LeHand then became his inseparable companion.

UNICEF has reported that in December 2012, 83,867 children were vaccinated against polio during a supplemental National Immunisation Campaign.

He was at St. Mark's School when he was stricken with polio during an epidemic.

An Afghan girl shows the purple ink mark on her finger, indicating she has been vaccinated against polio during an immunization campaign in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan.

Specifically, exposure to flash cards promoting routine immunization during mother's meetings or home visits by CMCs predicts an increase in DPT1 coverage of about 4%; these mother's meetings and home visits were a key strategy to encourage caretakers to have their children vaccinated with polio during an upcoming mass campaign.

A Yemeni girl receives a polio vaccination during a polio immunization campaign at a health center in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.

This autumn brings us "Nemesis", a story about a polio epidemic during a hot Newark summer in 1944.

Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot and killed a police officer protecting polio workers during a United Nations-backed vaccination campaign in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, the police said.

© UNICEF/NYHQ2012-0078/Asselin A child receives an oral polio vaccine during a routine immunization session at the health centre in the town of Nyunzu, in DR Congo.

Dr. Perry began working with polio during World War II, when she was a physical therapist for the Army, and she has seen some patients continually for 50 years or more, creating lifelong charts of their progress, and in many cases, she said, their decline.

During the telecast, they aired the famous radio broadcast that launched the March of Dimes to end polio, during which singer Eddie Cantor asked all Americans to send in a dime.